The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool?

Wired News is reporting that the equipment found in the "secret" NSA room at AT&T wasn't some elaborate device designed by Big Brother. Rather, it is a commercially available network-analysis product that any company could acquire. From the article: "'Anything that comes through (an IP network), we can record,' says Steve Bannerman, marketing vice president of Narus, a Mountain View, California, company. 'We can reconstruct all of their e-mails along with attachments, see what web pages they clicked on, we can reconstruct their VOIP calls.'"

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Article Is Spin, Of Course

[Master of Transhuman]

First, the morons want everybody to believe that just because the Narus device can be used for traffic analysis - which is fundamentally a benign activity, unless it's used to deny somebody's traffic - which the telcos now want to do - that therefore the device is "harmless."

Horseshit.

This device as designed and built for spying, and was placed into telcos everywhere on the PRETEXT of being useful for traffic analysis. Then the NSA came calling and bulldozed the telcos into giving them everything that goes through it.

The fact of the matters is that Narus the company is run by an "Israeli immigrant" and is financed by, among others, an Israeli investment company, one of the partners of whom happens to have worked for the Israeli government, including a stint developing optical devices for the Israeli military.

And one of the directors on the board happens to be an "ex-" NSA guy (or as General Golgo said in the James Bond movie, "Nobody ever leaves the KGB!")

The reality is that this device was designed and built for spying by the Mossad, in collaboration with the NSA, and then sold to the telcos under a pretext, which was then altered by arm-twisting or payment to the telcos to sell out the US Constitution.

It's that simple.

And every gutless moron posting here who says, "So what?" is a traitor to the United States and deserves to have his Internet porn recorded by the morons at NSA.

Stupid suckers won't care until they're locking your ass up for even POSTING on /. - which they WILL get around to someday - after they have locked up all the anti-war protesters and the rest of the people who ARE patriots in this country instead of the "fake patriots" who are for a fascist state in this country.

But then, since most of posters are /. are fake patriots, maybe they won't lock them up, after all. Most of the posters on ./ will do anything to bend over and take it from Bill Gates, so why not George Bush, too?